PHILADELPHIA — Outfielder Carlos Gonzalez was sore but not limping Tuesday, leaving the Rockies’ best player this season convinced that he will make a start tonight against the Phillies after missing two games because of pain behind his right knee.

“I am going to be in there. They just thought I could use the extra day to get better,” he said.

There is some fluid where the pain is located, Gonzalez said, but he’s not concerned. He hasn’t had the knee drained and doesn’t think it’s necessary.

“If it gets worse, maybe we will do something besides rest,” Gonzalez said.

His absence from the lineup is the equivalent of a fist to the windpipe. He is batting .335 with 17 home runs and 51 RBIs. He’s attempting to be the first Rockies player to hit 40 home runs since the Coors Field humidor was installed in 2002.

“It’s not about my numbers, though. I am not thinking like that,” Gonzalez said. “It’s about the team. We are going through a tough time, but we are young. We have a lot of good players who are only going to get better.”

Gonzalez has dropped in the all-star voting, slipping from 10th to 11th among NL outfielders. He still is likely to make his first All-Star Game as the Rockies’ lone representative.

Still starting. Tyler Colvin made a start Tuesday for the seventh time in 10 games — and immediately paid dividends with a first-inning RBI single. Colvin has eight RBIs during that stretch.

Footnotes. Eric Young Jr. stole his eighth base in nine attempts. He made a start in center field ahead of Dexter Fowler. … Arvada West graduate Roy Halladay, who’s on the Phillies’ 15-day disabled list, spent his pregame Tuesday running on the concourse at Citizens Bank Park. Halladay, 35, is sidelined because of a strained right lat. The Denver native is 192-97 in his major-league career but is only 4-5 this season in 11 starts. Troy E. Renck, The Denver Post

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